2019/2020 Season Editor’s Pick!
New Season Announcements are in full swing and there is plenty to be excited about! However… this is our TOP PICK for the 2019/2020 season 🌟
The 7 Deaths of Maria Callas
Bayerische Staatsoper
An opera project by Marina Abramovic (2020)
Composer Marko Nikodijevic, Marina Abramović · With Musik by Marko Nikodijević and scenes of operas by Georges Bizet, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi | New Production
Co-production with Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro del Maggio, Opéra national de Paris and Greek National Opera.
ABOUT
“Marina Abramović has been fascinated by the life of the “Tigress”, as Callas was known, for decades. She has now developed the 7 Deaths of Maria Callas opera project, in which seven deaths on stage are recreated in exemplary form on the basis of the musical and scenic formative highlights of the respective operas – all arias that were immensely important for Maria Callas. In seven films and together with Willem Dafoe, Marina Abramović will die seven times and at the end of the performance, with the real death of Maria Callas in Paris in 1977, will be on the stage performing as herself. In addition to the well-known arias from the 19th and 20th centuries, Serbian composer Marko Nikodijević will compose music for the opera’s musical arrangement, and with it illustrate how Callas’s unconditioned love for her art never allowed a separation between the person on stage and the private person.“
CAST
Film Actor and Performance: Marina Abramović
Film Actor: Willem Dafoe
Carmen: Nadezhda Karyazina
Floria Tosca: Whitney Morrison
Desdemona: Leah Hawkins
Lucia Ashton: Adela Zaharia - Soprano
Norma: Selene Zanetti
Cio-Cio-San: Gabriella Reyes
Violetta Valéry: Hyesang Park
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